At the time, back in the early seventies the Vietnam war was still raging, Susan Dietrich and her husband Joel and their tiny daughter were political exiles, living like refugees in the States. Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets. Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning her life around.  And “the Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, she invested in a then-new Casio keyboard…” and plays minimal prog lo-fi space pop.

EURO TOUR SEPT – OCT

10.09. HU Budapest – Kontra Club + 11.09. AT Vienna – Rhiz + 13.09. CH St. Gallen – A-Synth Fest + 16.09. BE Brüssel – Les Ateliers Claus + 18.09. NL Tilburg Incubate Festival + 19.09. BE Antwerp – Het Bos + 20.09. NL Amsterdam – OCCII + 21.09. DE Darmstadt – Oetinger Villa + 24.09. SE Malmö + 25.09. SE Stockholm – Mother Shows + 26.09. SE Göteborg – Koloni + 29.09. DE Berlin – Marie Antoinette + 01.10. F Paris – Le Chinois + 02.10. + F Paris – Espace B + 03.10. F Nantes – Le Lieu Unique + 07.10. ES Barcelona – Heliogabal

Sept 10, Budapest, Kontra Klub with

Maria Violenza  (I, lo-fi dark arabesque synth punk)
Alone (Srb, Nikola Vitkovic graphic artist’s dark-electro project)
Szentcsalád Oral Orchestra (H, urban blues by an RNR666 founder)

Sicilian born Rome based Maria Violenza plays dark arabesque synth punk music
under the influence of her homeland’s mixed cultural heritage.
Let’s search for Sicel, Sicanian, Phonenician, Greek, Punic, Roman, Vandalic, Gothic, Byzantine, Arabic, Jewish, Norman, Lombardic, Spanish, Albanian and North-African elements!

She is member of
– French music collective Grand Triple Alliance Internationale De L’Est,
– Capputtini I Lignu, garage rock duo with Cheb Samir from Bobsleigh Baby, The Normals, Trans Upper Egypt, Vernon Sélavy,
– Corpus Christi, a duo with Tina (TJ and the Lipstix, The Intellectuals, Cokerocket, Felt Ups), play traditional country & western tunes on guitars, tambourines, toy keyboards, kazoos, whistles, bird calls, and bones. They have recently been joined by an American banjo player Sam Crawford (The Goodwill Orchestra, Bowery Boy Blue).

MARIA VIOLENZA IN BUDAPEST AT KONTRA KLUB ON SEPT 10

with

THE SPACE LADY (US)

ALONE (Srb, Nikola Vitkovic graphic artist’s dark-electro project)

SZENTCSALÁD ORAL ORCHESTRA
(H, urban blues on acoustic guitar by an RNR666 founder)

At the time, back in the early seventies the Vietnam war was still raging, Susan Dietrich and her husband Joel and their tiny daughter were political exiles, living like refugees in the States. Joel would be imprisoned for having resisted the draft. For nine years they had subsisted on spare change and meager sales of their artwork on the streets. Finding a dilapidated, old accordion in a junk store was the major cause in turning her life around.  And „the Space Lady began her odyssey on the streets of San Francisco in the late 70s, playing an accordion and dressed flamboyantly, transmitting messages of peace and harmony. Following the theft of her accordion, she invested in a then-new Casio keyboard…” and plays minimal prog lo-fi space pop.

EURO TOUR SEPT – OCT

04.09. IT Macerata – Ficana Terra di Mezzo Festival + 07.09. GR Athens – Some Bizarre + 08.09. GR Thessaloniki + 10.09. HU Budapest – Kontra Club + 11.09. AT Vienna – Rhiz + 13.09. CH St. Gallen – A-Synth Fest + 16.09. BE Brüssel – Les Ateliers Claus + 18.09. NL Tilburg Incubate Festival + 19.09. BE Antwerp – Het Bos + 20.09. NL Amsterdam – OCCII + 21.09. DE Darmstadt – Oetinger Villa + 24.09. SE Malmö + 25.09. SE Stockholm – Mother Shows + 26.09. SE Göteborg – Koloni + 29.09. DE Berlin – Marie Antoinette + 01.10. F Paris – Le Chinois + 02.10. + F Paris – Espace B + 03.10. F Nantes – Le Lieu Unique + 07.10. ES Barcelona – Heliogabal

Sept 10, Budapest, Kontra Klub with

Maria Violenza  (I, lo-fi dark arabesque synth punk)
Alone (Srb, Nikola Vitkovic graphic artist’s dark-electro project)
Szentcsalád Oral Orchestra (H, urban blues on acoustic guitar by an RNR666 founder)

French singer and songwriter NOIR BOY GEORGE
plays simple music on his keyboard.
One of the best video makers ever
tab_ularasa has made an amazing clip for his song

ENFONCE TOI DANS LA VILLE

from 7″ vinyl on POUet Schallplatten (France)

There’re no enough words to describe the magnificence of art of tab_ularasa

NBG is a member of French dada doom grind supergroup 1400 Points De Suture together with Cheb Samir (Bobsleigh Baby, Capputtini I Lignu, The Normals, Trans Upper Egypt, Vernon Sélavy and more), Emmanuel Satti (A.H.Kraken, Anals, The Dreams, Funk Police, Scorpion Violente and more), Seb Normal (Crash Normal, Feeling Of Love, Le Chomage, Cheb Samir & The Black Souls Of Leviathan and many more) and others.

Free download Noir Boy George & 1400 Points De Suture

“we know that’s the main aim of the sound:
to get a sound that makes you feel sick in the stomach,
because it sounds so good.”

dark, 70s & 80s horror film influenced cold wave
synth punk from Australia by NUN

a song about the master of spoons, Uri Geller

Debut album on Aarght (Aus, LP, CD) & Avant! Records (Italy, LP)

YOU. is the name of a band in New York. Just try to search it on the net… Their music is better. Cold but danceable synth punk a la Digital Leather and New Order

Sunchaser LP + digital on Dais Records (US)

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The BILDERS are groups of various musicians and friends from New Zealand, Australia, United States, Germany, Austria and France. In 2013 there were 3 different line-ups, one in Australia, one in New Zealand and one in Germany. The New Zealander musician and writer Bill Direen stands in the centre of these groups. Their melodic minimal art pop is just like the Blurt.
Now here is a special 7″ vinyl with 3 tracks from 3 different line-ups. It consists a situationist exposé of current damn fool world political events: „The utopians R just out of boozin”; an appealing ballad plus a simmering live extract from a recent European tour. The ballad is like a song by Mick Harvey

SmartGuy Records (US)

In the NZ-er band the drummer is Stu Kawovski (Stuart Page), who also in the best alternative pop band of New Zealand, The Axemen.

It was written between the catastrophes
by charming Swedish songtress
Molly Nillson in Buenos Aires

From the EP Sólo Paraíso on Dark Skies Association (Sweden) (Sweden)
and Night School Records (UK)

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The Russians have a predilection for airliner shooting

1940. A Junkers Ju 52 en route from Tallinn (Estonia) to Helsinki (Finland) was shot down by two Soviet bombers over the Gulf of Finland during peacetime; all 9 aboard died.

1962. A domestic flight of Russian airlines company Aeroflot was accidentally shot down by a surface-to-air missile which had gone astray during an air defence exercise. 84 people died.

1978. A Boeing 707 of Korean Air Lines was shot down by Soviet fighter planes; the plane did crash-lands near the Soviet Union’s border with Finland; two of the 109 people on board were killed, the rest were subsequently released.

1983. Korean Air Lines Flight 007, a Boeing 747 was shot down by Soviet fighter planes near Sakhalin and Moneron Island after straying into Soviet airspace; all 269 people on board were killed.

ENFANT TERRIBLE is a Dutch electronic label for bohemian spirits, libertine hearts, decadent souls and hedonistic minds. Its sub-label is Gooitland Elektro. Forthcoming albums

Solitude FX (aka Solitairen Effekten) plays minimal electronic Neu Deutsche Welle musik. From fsx LP

Freikörperkultur V/A LP. It’s a celebration of the body on every level. Tracks from hi-nrg influenced synth-pop to new school cold wave and from harsh body beats to trance indulging spacious elektro with Tobias Bernstrup, Sololust, Zarkoff, Popsimonova, Lesbian Mouseclicks, Le Moine, Brusque Twins and Tannhäuser Gate

You can listen to all tracks here

nick nicely again

Born in Greenland on a stopover during a transatlantic flight in 1959. Grew up in London on his parents classical music collection and radio pop of the 60s. When almost every- body started to play in punk groups he mixed 60s psychedelia with 80s electronics. Self-released his first single in 1980. It was re-released in same year by German Hansa Records, and became a small hit in France and Holland. This success was the cause of remove of the song at the last minute from Some Bizzare Album in 1981. It was the new wave synth-pop scene first manifestation with such groups as Depeche Mode and Soft Cell. Nick was signed by EMI, but after a single in 1982 he retired from the spotlight. In the late 80s and early 90s under various monikers he was involved in Acid House and Rave scene. The first nick nicely album with his two singles and unreleased tracks recorded between 1978 and 2004 was published in 2004, and was re-released repeatedly. His first ever live show was in 2008. Since then he shared the stage with Hawkwind, John Maus, Maria Minerva, Ariel Pink and more. The first real time nick nicely album titled Lysergia was released in 2011 on cassette on Burger Records. And the second is coming in September, but I think it will be almost same thing than Lysergia was.

Space of a Second album on Lo Recordings (UK)

He has got his name in 1973 when one mate said – Give us a fag you sod!
And another said – Why don’t you ask Nick nicely?

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Richard In Your Mind is a funny psychedelic pop band from Sydney. Confusing the audience since 2006.  But just in your mind.

Ponderosa album on Rice Is Nice Records (Aus) I want to hear more tracks from it.

STRANGE HANDS of Bordeaux. 60s-like dynamic psych garage rock trio without bass, but with 12 strings guitars and organ.

„Children Shouldn’t Play with Dead Things” LP on Azbin (France) and Ayo Silver (Spain), cassette on Burger Records (US)

Western Euro tour in July. One of the craziest parties of RNR666 was of theirs. Look!

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„Solo Paradise” MOLLY NILSSON‘s musical reports from Buenos Aires. Bittersweet heart beats, sunny economic breaks, romantic cats and plane crash. The Latin mood didn’t touch very much her Scandinavian attitude. She’s one of the most interesting performers in the synth pop underground.

Sólo Paraíso (The Summer Songs) on Night School Records (UK)

+ „These Things Take Time”, her debut CDr from 2008 is on double LP with unreleased recordings from the same period  by Dark Skies Association (Swe)

In the future too:  “Our knives are never dull / our moon is always full”

Cha Cha Guitri was a French minimal synth pop band in Saint-Etienne in the early 80s. The boys composed and sang, the girls sang and designed minimal costumes. Only two cassettes were released and three concerts were given. They were too artistic for the break-through.

Their records of 1981 on LP/CD/digital on Born Bad Records (France)

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„Das Leben ist ein Puff…” und Puff ist eine Berliner synth punk gruppe

7″ vinyl platte über Slovenly Recordings (US)

Xeno & Oaklander, cold minimal synth pop duo from Brooklyn,
in January between New York and Moscow landed in Budapest
to play a show and to shoot a video for the new album Par Avion,
because Sean McBride also loves this city